Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Corcoran Gallery of Art

National Collection of Fine Arts

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Renwick Gallery

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Grand Salon of the Renwick Gallery

Summary

View of the Grand Salon in the Renwick Gallery, part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Many paintings hang on the red walls. A skylight fills the ceiling above and there red upholstered seating for visitors. The salon was restored to evoke the time when the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its school occupied this building located at 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 313, Box 109, Folder: 13

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1972

Standard number

72-4230

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Interior

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Art museums

Art objects

Buildings

Painting

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_9028